Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Reluctant Painter

My plate is already plenty full. If I wanted I could spend all day, every day, preparing for the holidays, but I'm too easily distracted and won't leave well enough alone.

I prefer my world, especially my playroom orderly, albeit scruffy. So long as I know where my toys are, I'm a happy boy. Everything in it is neat, tidy, in very good order, meets all my needs, and is comfortable. Something isn't right though. I don't care for the color.

Since converting this rarely used guest bedroom to my personal toy store, I've tried all kinds of tricks to liven it up. I've tried cork, I've tried a single bold colored accent wall (with and without cork), Although I learned the hard way about writing on walls, I even tried greenboard paint. I was uncertain what to do.

Then Little Augury came to my rescue. In a post long ago she wrote "Why not make a small room mysterious by wrapping it in a dark color.."

22 comments:

The black certainly is dramatic! It sets off the things you have in the room beautifully. I suspect this will make you more particular about what you display, in itself not a bad thing. I wouldn't have the nerve to paint a whole room black, but you have quite a bit of white space on the wall and those gold curtains, so it might actually be do-able! That's such a brave thing to do, paint a room black. Then again, you can always paint it something else if you hate it. Good job you're energetic!

Toad, the pic of you is spectacular. You look so distinguished, like a great writer or artist of days long past. Genuinely stylish. Love the hair...just long enough in the back without looking like Flusser who has let his hair grow too long...he's past the distinguished phase and is starting to look hippie.

As for the black walls...geez, the pic looks good but I've gotta tell you that I think all 4 walls are going to be overwhelming in black. Can't wait to see the finished product, though...please make sure you post the pics.

I like the black too Toad. I just hope you aren't painting in the same duds that you were wearing in the picture of yersef! Ha! Are to "on order" bookshelves that replace the bakers rack white or natural or are they stained?Wolf pee is STRONG!

If you're right-handed, I hope the sore shoulder is your left one. And vice versa. Otherwise your acupuncturist is going to clobber you for overworking a sore joint.

Nevertheless, I'm loving the idea of that 4th wall closing down the job. From my vantage point, your scheme is working because you have so many terrific pieces of framed-or-matted-in-light-colors art which never really pounced forward, hung on light colored walls as they were.